Chapter 6 Making Tools

People who don't eat salt for a long time will become weak, and it will lead to osteoporosis and gray hair and other symptoms.

I have the strength but I can't use it!

"There is no major problem at present, but the problem of salt shortage must be solved as soon as possible......

Retracting his gaze to look outside the primeval forest, Liu Xiu stood by the river, bent down and grabbed a handful of mud and sand, wiped it on his head, and gently scratched his hair.

On the premise that there is no detergent, he uses mud and sand to clean his hair and body these days, as long as he cleans it enough afterwards, the friction of mud and sand can take away the stains on his body, and barely achieve the purpose of cleaning his body.

When grabbing and rubbing his hair, Liu Xiu paused, stretched out his right hand and put it in front of his eyes, rubbing his thumb and index finger gently, and he already had a plan in his heart.

"It's actually clay......"

After a slight glance at the plain by the lake behind him, Liu Xiu muttered in a low voice, turned around and continued to clean his body.

After an uncomfortable scrubbing, Liu Xiu, who was refreshed, went ashore and began to dig mud on the ground with wooden sticks to play with mud.

Clay is a good thing, can be used to make pottery, once successful, Liu Xiu does not only have to eat barbecue, but also add some wild vegetables to cook soup to drink, although the lake where the mountain spring water gathers is clean enough, but he prefers to drink boiled water, if you put some tea, it is simply a pleasure.

"Take your time, don't be too ambitious to spoil yourself......"

Liu Xiu played with mud seriously, he has been active at the foot of the mountain for the past few days, and he did not go far rashly, it is not difficult to find one or two wild tea trees in such a vast place around.

The clay and water were kneaded delicately and softly, and Liu Xiu collected a lump the size of a grinding disc and took it back to the cave.

The next step is the fine work, kneading the clay back into clay pots and bowls and other items, as long as you do it seriously, it is not difficult.

Slow work makes meticulous work, and time flies.

Three hours later, Liu Xiu made three clay pots and five clay bowls, the clay pots are 40 centimeters high and 30 centimeters in diameter, and the pottery bowls are about the same size as normal rice bowls.

The reason why we do so much is to prevent subsequent breakage and waste.

The clay pot and pottery bowl are placed at the bottom of the cave to dry naturally, which has to go up for at least a day, and can only be fired after the shade is dried, there is no kiln, and it can only be burned with a bonfire, so that the quality of the pottery fired out can not be guaranteed, if it is successful, it is enough for the time being.

Because he wanted to make clay pots, Liu Xiu temporarily gave up the plan to use mud to seal the cracks in the stone wall, and it was obviously not a wise move to transport mud back and forth from the lake.

The clay pot is not something that can be done overnight, Liu Xiu will start to build tools next, and he decided to make a stone axe, which can be used not only to cut trees but also to defend himself.

"I hope to make a stone axe today"

Looking at the sky, the sun was in the sky, Liu Xiu retracted his gaze and left the cave to find materials to make stone axes.

After searching by the lake for half an hour, I found a piece of hard bluestone, the size of a football with irregular shapes, and it was an excellent material for making stone axes.

After beating and beating for an hour, he barely knocked Qingyan into the shape of an axe, and then Liu Xiu sat by the lake and polished it carefully, the process of polishing the axe was extremely boring, but Liu Xiu did it very seriously and meticulously.

The axe is slightly polished around the axe, the focus is on the axe blade, which should be sharpened relatively sharply, in order to prevent the subsequent chopping axe blade from breaking, Liu Xiu's sharpened axe blade is relatively thick.

The work of polishing the axe alone took Liu Xiu almost three hours, and the day passed almost like this, and the sun was setting.

It wasn't enough to have an axe, you had to have an axe handle, and while it was dark, Liu Xiu laboriously smashed a small tree with a stone that was arm thick.

When the little tree was broken, the sky had already darkened, and Liu Xiu had to drag the whole tree back to the cave, and the wild at night was not safe.

Back in the cave, Liu Xiu first ate a grilled fish to fill his stomach, and then smashed the small tree he brought back with a stone and took down a section of one meter long.

"Make the stone axe tonight, or there will be no rest"

Liu Xiu, who has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder, said to do it, and the one-meter-long wooden stick is the handle of the axe, but the axe cannot be installed directly, and it has to be punched holes.

First hammer out a depression with a stone at the end of the stick, then put a piece of charcoal on the hollow, and then use a hollow tree pipe to blow the charcoal, without tools, Liu Xiu can only use this primitive method to punch holes in the stick.

Charcoal burning, little by little, changed again and again, and after more than three hours, under Liu Xiu's perseverance, he finally burned an oval hole in the wooden stick, and after blowing the charcoal fire for a long time, his two cheeks hurt.

But finally achieved the goal, Liu Xiu was happy in his heart.

The axe is packed into the hole, the size is the same, but it can't fit tightly, Liu Xiu thinks it's good, after all, it is a stone axe, not as good as an axe made of steel, the slash vibration is very easy to damage, leaving some gaps can be buffered to reduce the shock damage of the axe slash.

"Find some vines to wrap and fix tomorrow, and a stone axe will be ready."

Satisfied with the fruits of his labor, Liu Xiu added firewood to the bonfire, and then fell asleep on the bed of the haystack tiredly, and fell asleep with a pillow on his pillow after a while.

The pillow was made of the whole rabbit skin of that day, stuffed with pheasant feathers and hay, which was quite soft and comfortable, and there was no way to talk about the beauty.

When he got up early the next morning, Liu Xiu routinely practiced the nameless self-cultivation exercise twice, feeling the growth of strength and a satisfied face, this feeling of making progress every day is really good.

With the practice of self-cultivation during this time, Liu Xiu experienced the benefits it brought to himself, not only limited to the growth of strength, it seems to improve his physical fitness in an all-round way, strength is one thing, even the toughness and action sensitivity of his body have improved, I don't know if it is an illusion, Liu Xiu feels that his memory and five senses have become much better, the time is still short, and further observation is needed......

The consequence of practicing the exercises twice was extreme hunger, so Liu Xiu ate two feet of grilled fish to fill her stomach, and then cleaned her mouth with charcoal.

The weather was gloomy and it looked like it was going to rain, so Liu Xiu decided not to go too far from the cave.

I looked for rattan near the cave, and by the way, I looked at the more than ten lasso traps laid in the past few days, and there was an unexpected harvest, a hare, a little fatter than the one harvested on the first day.

It's time to change the taste, and Liu Xiu wants to vomit after eating the fish for a few days......

I went to deal with the rabbit first, skinned and disemboweled, and I didn't waste the internal organs when I was done, and it took more than an hour to surround a circle with stones by the lake, smash the rabbit's internal organs and throw them in, watching the fish pour into the stone circle, Liu Xiu's face bloomed with a heartfelt smile.

The spring thunder is rolling, and the rain is coming, starting with the rain, followed by the big pot...... Scoop pan ...... The rain is pouring ......, forget it, it's raining heavily.

Returning to the cave with rabbit meat and rattan in embarrassment, the heavy rain always makes people feel bad, fortunately the bonfire in the cave is warm, and it can also shelter from the wind and rain, so it will not be so embarrassing.

The fresh rattan is used directly to wrap the axe tightly, round and round, and after it is completely fixed, the bundle is placed around the campfire and baked, so that when the rattan loses moisture, the plant fibers shrink and the axe can be further fixed.

In the past few days, Liu Xiu has picked up a lot of firewood, and he doesn't have to worry about firewood on rainy days.

Although the bonfire burning in the cave was unusually warm all the time, the clay pot that was made yesterday at the bottom was not completely dry, and it looked like it would have to wait another day.

It was raining heavily outside, and Liu Xiu couldn't do anything else, so he simply found a stone to knock on, and then used the rain from the mouth of the cave to polish a second axe for backup, so that even if the axe he made was broken, he could replace it.

It rained for a day, and that day passed.

The next day was another good weather, misty and dewdrops, came to the cave to breathe fresh air, Liu Xiu unexpectedly found that the group of sika deer on the grassland got up earlier than himself, and some sika deer were still doing indescribable things.

"Spring has arrived......"

Liu Xiu smiled, it was not that he had no idea of fighting sika deer during this time, but his ideas were all in vain, looking at the current situation, it is estimated that he can find a way to get two fawns in captivity in a few months.

Provided that he was still here at that time.

After practicing self-cultivation and eating, Liu Xiu found that the pottery products in the cave had almost dried up and could be calcined in the next step.

As a person of action, Liu Xiu did not hesitate, left the cave to look for firewood around, and picked up a large pile of firewood, which was enough.

Use the fire in the cave to light a bonfire outside, and then move the pottery out and put it next to the bonfire, first let the pottery get familiar with the temperature of the flame for half an hour to prevent cracking during calcination, and then use a wooden stick to pick up the hot pottery and put it into the fire.

Then add firewood and increase the heat to calcinate.

The bonfire is blazing, and this burning is a few hours, and the pottery is burned red as if it is about to melt, and then Liu Xiu doesn't care, waiting for it to cool down naturally, otherwise it will only be wasted.

In this way, the day has almost passed.

Once people are busy, it is easy to ignore the passage of time, just to build the stone axe and clay pot took Liu Xiu three days, until the next day the clay pot cooled, Liu Xiu harvested two fired clay pots and three pottery bowls, the others were cracked and unusable.

The results are good, I went to the lake to fill the water one by one and tried it, and Liu Xiu was quite satisfied with the effect.

In this way, Liu Xiu can not only cook and eat in clay pots, but also use clay pots to hold water to the edge of the cave and mud walls.

Clenched his fists, although he persevered in practicing the self-cultivation exercises to make his strength grow steadily, the impact of the lack of salt was deepening, and the feeling of being powerless became more and more obvious.

Looking at the stone axe on the side, Liu Xiu said to himself: "Half a day is enough to paste the wall, the next step is to cut down trees to build a small boat, and then take a boat along the exit of the lake to explore the outside world, if you find the same kind of person, you can solve the problem of salt shortage......